Sport Young Achievers Award

In each round, you will need to complete three tasks:

• Have a go at a sport – This is about participating in different sports and physical activity. You can have a go at more than one sport in a round, but you will need to choose different sports to try in the other rounds. E.g in ‘Get Set’ you could try football and cricket but in ‘Game On’ and ‘Super Me’ you will need to try different sports.
• Work on your skills – Setting personal challenges to develop your physical literacy skills that will help you when participating in sports and physical activity. E.g You might choose to improve your catching skills in ‘Get Set’ and challenge yourself to catch a ball ten times in a row, or from further distances. You will then need to choose a new skill to work on in ‘Game On’ and ‘Super Me’.
• Support the environment through sport and physical activity – Reduce, reuse, repurpose – how can sports do better at protecting the environment? E.g using a reusable water bottle, creating a ‘home gym’ out of household items, repurposing old footballs into hanging baskets – the possibilities are endless!

The step by step guide to earning your VICTA Sport Young Achievers Award

• Step one – Make sure you read the terms and conditions at the bottom of this page before you start to make sure you are eligible to take part.
• Step two – Decide which three activities to do to complete your first round, ‘Get Set’ (a sport, a skill, an environmentally friendly sports activity). Visit the task pages below to find lots of inspiration and ideas. For example, for your skill task you might record yourself completing a keepy-uppy challenge. Or, for your eco-friendly activity you might complete a litter pick of your local sports field.
  As well as trying our suggestions, we also encourage Sport Young Achievers to think outside the box and submit your own activity ideas. If you are unsure as to whether an activity would be accepted, please get in touch at sports@victa.org.uk..
• Step three – Once you’ve decided which tasks you’d like to do, it’s time to get started. Don’t forget to take photos or videos as you go along. You’ll need these to submit at the end to complete your rounds and earn your badges.
• Step four – Once you have completed your three tasks for the round, visit the appropriate round page and complete our entry form. It will ask you to add some photos or links to videos so that we can see what you did.
• Step five – Once the round comes to an end, we’ll look at what you have all been doing and send out your badge and certificate. If you have given us photo consent, we will celebrate your achievements on our social media and website.
• Step six – There’s no rest for Young Achievers! It’s time to do it all again and complete your second and third rounds.
• Step seven –When you’ve completed all three rounds and earned your pin badges, you’re officially a VICTA Sport Young Achiever! We will send out a final certificate and medal!

Visit the pages for each round to find out how to earn each badge and submit your evidence

Terms and conditions

• The Sport Young Achievers Award is open to children who are following a primary school curriculum who are registered or are registrable as blind or partially sighted as per our requirements for support; you may be asked to provide supporting documentation of your child’s vision impairment. Any questions regarding eligibility, please contact sports@victa.org.uk
• Entrants must be permanent residents of the UK
• For each round, entrants must complete three activities
• Evidence submission must be completed by a parent/carer
• By submitting evidence for the award, you agree to your photos/videos, your child’s name and age being used by VICTA, including being displayed on the VICTA website, on our social media channels and on charity emails
• Please note, the actual badges and medal you receive might differ to the ones in the illustrations. The illustrations represent the first set of badges and medals to collect.